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>> >> this is al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz, live in new york. an important deadline is missed in israel. the future of middle east peace talks hang in the balance. >> changing times in crimea. prompting celebrations as u.s.-russia get ready to talk face to face about ukraine. >> the number of missing in the washington mudslide is reduced. so many are focussed on n.s.a. snooping. what about the information you willingly hand over online every
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day? >> tonight the united states is trying to save the middle east peace talks. a short time ago the state department released a statement denying an agreement had been reached and also denying that the talks had broken down: >> palestinians are threatening to walk away after israel broke a promise to release prisoners. israel wants a promise that the peace talks will be connected. we talk to two families connected to the conflict. >> in the face of a man he nef met avi -- never met avi sees himself.
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that's the man he was named for. his uncle avi was kidnapped and killed. >> i was born a year to the day after his murder. i bear his name and live under the shadow of his murder. >> 30 minutes down the road. this woman looks through photos of her son. 33 years ago kareen killed a vcks i's uncle -- avi's uncle. this weekend israel were supposed to release him. the deadline came and went. >> translation: there's nothing dearer than a son, not a brother or a father. nothing can replace a son. >> the victims are linked they may help to determine the fate of the counter middle east peace talks. israelis great to free 144 israeli prisoners. palestinians agreed not to seek u.n. recognition.
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so long is kareem and the final round of prisoners are not freed, the palestinians are threatening to walk away. kareem's mother supports that. >> translation: we'll talk before the prisoners are released. they must come home. >> for his rail the prisoner releases are unpopular. avi protests against them and accuses the government of betrayal. >>. >> translation: we are taking about a knife stabbed in our heart. >> israel's government is not willing to face the angers in the palestinians agree to extend the peace talks. >> palestinians says before talks are extended israel needs to uphold its commitment and release the victims.
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>> kareem's family opposes the palestinians giving in to demands, each if it means furniture bought for kareem's home coming stays wrapped. avi's family will fight his release. it is likely that the peace talks will collapse. >> in a few hours united states and russia meet to discuss ukraine. moscow insists it will not invade the country. meanwhile crimea is celebrating. its official time changed to that of moscow's. it's the latest of many changes, showing russia controls the area. >> secretary of state john kerry is preparing to meet his russian counterpart in paris. he made an unexpected detour on his way home from the middle
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east. >> and we are getting a better idea of who wants to run ukraine. million air petro-borashenko got a boost. that may form a problem for the former prime minister yulia tymoschenko, who wants to return to power. jennifer glasse has been covering the crisis and is in kiev with the latest. >> it's an interesting development in the ukraine presidential process. vitaly klitschko, the heavy weight bomber, the front runner - he dropped out of the race, and flew his weight behind an oligarch famous for running a chocolate company here in ukraine. he'll run for mayor, vitaly klitschko will be the presidential candidate. this is a time for unity in ukraine. they are trying to make sure
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there's not a run-off election on may 21st. they'd like to see a president elected outright. >> the longer the political process goes on. the more ukraine's sovereignty is threatened. in the may 25th election. one of the main opponents will be former prime minister yulia tymoschenko. she, too assist had been approved by her party, she'll fight to get crimea back. they'll take it over by russia. it will be an interesting election race. those are elections as well as for the mayor and kiev. right now ukraine needs political leadership and stability as it battles economic challenges domestically and
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internationally. >> in washington state the death toll rose to 18. one week ago today a mountain of mud slid off a hill and flattened more than 40 homes. crews have been digging through the mud and debris. rain has complicated the search. there is encouraging news. the number of people missing has been dramatically lowered. >> tania moseley is live in der iping tonne. the number dropped from 90 to 30, why has it gone down so dramatically? >> well, initially authorities encouraged people to call in names of the missing. in many instances they received duplicate names, through cross referencing and talking with family members they dropped the number dramatically down to 30. today the crews found one body at the site. they say that heavy rain and flooding prevented them making more progress. a week after the mud slide rain
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soaked the trees, mud and debris. that's all that is left of the lives that lived here. earlier at 10:37, a moment of silence. the moment one week ago when oso washington became home to one of the worst mudslides in washington state history. more than 200 crew members and rescue dogs navigated through the floodwaters, in search of victims. pv are spray-painted to notify rescuers of victims. >> oftentimes the rescuers are not recovering full-impact victims. >> diana has come to terms with the worst - her youngest son will not return home. >> the hope lingered for three or four address. the knowledge was very immediate. >> rescuers have not recovered
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his body, but they are certain that he, his fiancee, and grandparents are among the missing. >> i picture them in the kitchen having breach if as saying, "what is that noise", and it being over. >> alan and fiancee were planning a wedding along the river. moments before death, alan wrote a facebook post about his fiancee. >> the last text was 45 minutes before the incident. it was to delaney. and it said "the 10 things i need to make me happy, and it was all you, 10 yous." >> there are many stories families wiped out. babel understands the possibility while rescuers are working around the clock, alan's body may never be found. >> it's only their body, their shell. they died together. they are together now. i picture them together where
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they are at. that's only their shells. but i still picture them together. >> rescuers will be out at the site tomorrow searching for victims. it's better days. now, tomorrow there'll be a memorial service that have been identified. there's good news. five of the victims that survived are listed in satisfactory and serious condition, upgrades from critical. >> a little bit of good nows. >> more than 100 aftershocks rumbled through southern california since an earthquake occurred. there's only been minor damage. less than 10 miles from the
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epicentre of an aftershock we go to our correspondent. >> a 4.1 aftershock struck at 2:32pm. we felt it here in fullerton. take a look behind me. this is a home that has been cordoned off. it is one of 26 homes that have been red-tagged in the city. it means they are uninhabitable. you can see the damage - the cracked foundation by the garage. the 5.1 quake was centered in orange county, 20 miles south-east of downtown los angeles. the quake could be felt to ventura county to the north and san diego to the south. >> this was taken at a restaurant. you can see diapers were literally shaken out of their
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qua quake, and a rock slide caused a car to overturn. people sustained minor injuries. there was a main break. crews worked hard to clean up the watermain break to repair it and correct the floodingment >> more than 100 aftershocks hit so far. ranging from magnitude 2 to 3.6. >> this is normal, normal included a wide range of after shacks. this is on the higher side of the average. we see large variations. there has been plenty of sequences with more aftershocks than this. it's definitely a good healthy aftershock. >> about 2,000 residents were without power in southern california after the earthquake struck. as for homes like this, city inspectors need to come inside and do a full inspection before declaring the house safe for the residents to return.
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>> in fullarton. >> there's more ahead on al jazeera america, including searchers with a piece of equipment crucial for finding the black boxes from the missing jetliner. details next. >> there's a lot of concern about government spying. what about the information you willingly give tokm. we take a -- to companies. we take a deeper look after the
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break. >> for the first time mince since malaysia airlines flight mh370 disappeared, crews fished out a number of objects from the ocean. authorities are working out if they are related to the jet. meanwhile rough weather may interfere with tomorrow's search, which is already underway there. >> a warship equipped with a black box detect tore is on its way to australia. randall pinkston explains. >> teams are racing against the clock to find the black box with vital information on the missing
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airliner. the transmitter in the blackbox will work another 7-10 days before the battery dies. >> one day after the search moved 7 miles north, crews from two ships - one from china, the other from australia, pulled debris from the water. despite satellite images of hundreds of objects, it's the first time anything has been retrieved. so far the objects do not match the missing malaysia airliner. >> on saturday, eight planes scanned a 97,000 square mile area. australian maritime safety authority officials according the search say two of the planes spotted several objects which ships will try to locate. four ships are in the area, with five more from the multinational task force expected to reach the search zone on sunday. flight has been missing since march 8th, with 239 passengers
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and crew on board aring triggering a search covering on area from central asia to the southern indian ocean. more than 20 nations are involved in the effort. every country is baring its own cost. the chinese are flying their aircraft and planes. we are running out planes. we are counting the costs, we are doing what needs to be done to try to get to the bottom of this mystery. that will go on. >> a pentagon spokesman says the department of defense spent $2.5 million of $4 million set aside to find the missing plane, and it should last until early april. it does not mean the u.s. will stop if the plane has not been found. the president made this clear, secretary chuck hagel made it clear, we'll stay with this as long as the malaysians need our help. >> in addition to deploying the
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aircraft and equipment. law enforcement assistance is being provided as a criminal act. >> president obama wants to revamp how the government spies. it's part of our segment "a deeper look." this week the president revealed a man to end the collection of telephone data, here is what it would do - telephone companies would keep the records. the government must go through the foreign surveillance court. the requests must bet specific and minimal. media companies would have to provide data in a timely manner, exceptions would have been made for an emergency. it helps to make connections between suspects overseas. president obama has been under pressure to rein it in after a
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former contractor edward snowden made the leaks last year. n.s.a. says some americans may not realise it. it's nothing compared to what they revealed online. we are all used to making moment to moment decisions online. in doing so we give away some privacy, like who we are, where we are, what we like and don't. >> everything you do on the phone, phone calls, chats, website. it's recorded by the phone company, advertising companies, wherever you are logged into. andrew runs the tour project allowing people to browse the web anonymously. that's a rarity, particularly when we give information to a third party. on facebook, google or a third
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party. >> a global tech firm based out of london shows you what marketing data they've been able to collect about you, including who lives in i don't remember home, mortgage, car and interest. now, i logged in and was surprised to see a lengthy list about my shopping habits. where i shopped, how much i spent. and then they even knew when the auto insurance was renewed. when i saw the online ads, they'll understand why. it allows you to edit your data. in fact, many people seemed to like the business. and in a recent survey, while 71% polled expressed concerns, 60% expect and demand personalised relevant interactions with businesses. 59% noticed improvement.
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>> there isn't much i would say in the check of how advertising is targetting users. that's certainly been the case for the last four years of advertising. we had a richer tapestry of information and data to work with. still, it may be a matter of if, not when, the line between privacy and consumer benefits was breached. commercial brokers will be provided by law to be more transparent. >> for more - i spoke to al jazeera's security and law contributor, and sara watson, and asked them to explain why this is a big deal. >> there's a couple of big deals. when they have this data, they can use it in ways that are discriminatory but we know when you are sent advertisements for mortgages, and the interest rates that are displayed and
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offered to you could vary, depending on the profile that the lenders have built up about you based on all of your online activities. it allows them to differentiate between different categories of consumers. >> if they know how much money i make, may they charge me a higher price online than somebody else? >> exactly. they notice it with airline tickets. one person, when he goes on line and safes for fares, he gets a higher rate than when they asks his secretary to do the same thing, because the company is act tell the income level of the two people. >> that would get my attention, now i understand. whoah. that is happening now with some of the big companies. >> that's some of the evidence of the kind of things that companies have been doing, and can increasingly do as they know more about you. >
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>> hearing that, what kind of things can people do at home to protect themselves from revealing too much information about themselves? >> there's a lot of tools we can use to minimise exposure. some has to do with the choice of search engines and browsers we use, if we are concerned about google having everything about us, we may not use picasso to post images or chrome as the browser of choice. there's a lot of things we can do to cut cookie access to the trails of information when we walk around the internet. >> does it extend beyond declaring internet search history and cookie database. >> do you think something bigger, like a cookie bill of rights is in order. >> the reason that's important is we don't have a view of how all the pieces fit together, and how they start to talk to each
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other. i think one of the things that the bill of rights, the consumable bill of rights privacy information is trying to get a grasp on is the eco system of how data brokers and internet service providers and the government are in ka hoots and sharing all the information. we have no elegibility into the traces of data. until we have that, we can't have discussion about the correct use or appropriate use of that information. >> that's a good point, that a lot of people don't think about, that we don't know what is being collected on it. there's no avenue to find out; correct. >> that's right. we know a little about the data that the n.s.a. is collecting on us. which is due to mr snowden, but we have little visibility as to what data brokers are doing, what informations are collecting
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and what information it's doing. they are supposedly protecting national security. there's a reason why they may not want to share secrets with it. on the side of private companies, they don't have the compelling interest and should be a lot more transparent about how much data they are collecting and what they are doing with it. if that information came out, the american people would be shocked to she what is happening, and i thing that any sense of comfort with these companies collecting our data would quickly diminish. >> do you think it goes far enough? >> it doesn't go far enough. it only covers telephone metadata. it's only one small kind of metadata that the government is collecting. that's the metadata about telephone calls. >> when you call them, how long the conversation lasts. >> location data, based op your cell phone, which has gps
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tracking. you ping the tower when you go somewhere. your internet metadata. that's a program that they could revive at any point in time. internet metadata is extremely revealing as well. >> financial records, credit card records. there's all kinds of metadata. this is addressing one piece of it. >> they are not rating the emails or listening to the calls, they are collecting information that is no different to what cellphone or internet companies collect. >> yes, but the difference is they are not just collecting one piece of information, they are collecting many different kinds of metadata. and it can paint an accurate picture of a person's life and lives, and they like and don't like. and what they do. you can tell whether they are
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going to a heart special history or calling an abortion clinic. those are the things that metadata can tell you. >> as we look forward, i'd like to get your thoughts on whether the government is moving in the right direction, or does it seem like a dark scary world out there for you? >> i think there's a lot of forward movement for the n.s.a. and forward movement in the white house taking initiative and talking about big data and privacy as a whole. that's where most of my excitement lies, because they are looking at this more wholistically across the industry, giving us a better map for understanding how the data sources connect and what the eco system is about, such that we can have a conversation about what we think is appropriate. >> the government is getting
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data from consumer efforts collected by companies, sapfize. >> two negotiators tell their story in "the fog of peace", what current diplomats can learn from their experiences. >> tornado reports coming down for some of the states on each coast - west and east. i'll show you where that is happening and where the heaviest rain is right now. that is next. person conversation def por
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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the top stories this half hour - united states is trying to save the middle east peace talks after israel refused to release a group of about two dozen prisoners today. the palestinians are threatening to walk away. israel wants assurances first the peace talks will be extended. the state department denies an agreement has been reached or that talks have broken down. >> u.s. and russia looking for common ground on ukraine.
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>> they'll meet with sergei lavrov in paris. the two countries are at odds over moscow's troop presence along the ukraine border. >> 30 people are missing in washington after the mudslide last saturday. the risen estimate was 90, the death tall has risen from 17 to 18. rain is complicating the search. >> cuba is trying to attract new business. they approved a law to attract new business and the flagging economy. we have more. >> in may be quaint. thousands of newly self-employed cuban workers, it's peanuts. the cuban authorities have, for the past few years, been opening up the economy. it's not enough. one of the problems the cuban economy has is in providing incentives. cuban workers in the state
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sector are not happy because the state pays so little. >> a special session from the cuban parliament is taking a step to open its economy to greater foreign investment. it will create a development zone west of havana, partly financed by brazil. foreign investors will pay less of their profits to the cuban government, working with security, guarantees and flexibility. >> foreign investment like this helped to save cuba after the collapse of its backer, the soviet union, more than 20 years ago. it sits awkwardly. the new expansion, that some call a necessary evil, has to be tightly controlled. >> the move was fuelled by fears that oil from venezuela might dry up. certain pillars of the cuban revolution - such as health and
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edu kags - will be -- education - will be off limit. >> the state has been too involved in all businesses. that's a mistake. the state does not have to control everything, only fundamental areas, like education and health, but not the small personal enterprises. >> foreign companies has been deterred by the 50 year emboringo on the island and will want them to tackle their own problems, like poor internet service, suffocating bureaucracy and inefficiency. many wanted to invest in an island they feel has great participation and are studying the new laws carefully. >> more than 30 people are detained in chile after protesters faced off with officers. police used tear gas to disappears crowds.
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demonstrators staged rallies to remember two young brothers killed 30 years ago. they had been attended a protest against the pippo sha regime -- pinochet regime. >> in venezuela, there were more clashes between police and protesters. more than 30 have died since the unrest began. >> supporters of nicolas maduro have been staging rival rallies. >> as world leaders grapple with crisis from iran to russia, lesson were to be learnt from two negotiators, authors of "the fog of peace - the human face of conflict resolution", ner a diplomat that helped to end wars and risked his lives to free hostages, and a psychotherapist who negotiated with hamas, and involved in efforts to end israeli palestine conflicts. >> the art of negotiation, if it is an art or condition - the hup jp condition, too -- human
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condition, too many times we are too theoretical about it. when you get to the nitty-gritty, it's an event which happiens between two people, three people, and it's a matter of individuals. therefore to understand the narrative in the mind of individuals is important to understand the narrative of the nation. >> you agree with that. the book focuses on trying to understand who you are talking to. for countries to understand their enemies, it seems like a basic lesson. why is it overlooked? >> countries start from a position of interest. and they are looking at things through their own lens. perhaps sometimes unknowingly, but, in fact, to be effective you need to get into the mind of the enemy. the book was called the folk of peace after mcnamara, in the iconic documentary was to say we
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didn't understand the mind of the enemy. we were fighting different wars. here he is referring to the vietnam war, where 3 million people, and vietnamese were killed, and 57,000 americans. and he said "we were fighting the cold war, they were fighting the war of ipp dependence. we don't seem to have learnt the lesson. when you look at what happened in afghanistan and iraq, we don't manage to get into the mind of the other. >> why is that. why is it difficult to understand the local culture, the people, and what is motivating them? >> i think because we start from what we know. it takes imagine in addition. it takes emersion, a lot of listening, and a lot of commitment to try to understand how the people think. more likely we go in with ideas or solutions and this is something very, very different,
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when you have to immerse yourself in what the other person is thinking. >> you wrote "the only impartiality aside at war is: >> what did you mean by that? >> anyone will tell you impartiality is necessary to succeed in a negotiation. if you and i sit in a perfectly scared - on two sides of a square table and we put in a center you see the glass closer to me and i see it closer to you. so why pursue something that is impossible. that's not what the real parties to a negotiation are looking for. >> how did you guys team up for the book. it's an interesting combination, a diplomat and a therapist. it's very different. how did you get together to write the book?
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>> we met in tehran in 2005. in our first conversation it was clear that we thought in the same way and speaking a similar langua language. although i had done a lot of my work in the consulting room, i had started to work in the middle east, but actually we were seeing things in a similar way. you could say what's around the kitchen table or normal human relations is applicable to conflict. what we understand is important. >> that's a lesson. whether you're negotiating with a foreign leader or a co-worker, it's critical to underwho you are talking to and what it is they want. >> and the role of humiliation, exclusion, marmginialisation --
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marginalisation, and the small hurts. there's politics and powers, but people's stories. >> which oftentimes is underestimated. you talk about israel, how impacted it is by the holocaust. other examples of people in their history, it may be from long ago, but it still impacts their decisions. >> indeed. and i can tell you i've had big terrorists telling me "do you think i do not know that taking incident hostages is wrong? of course i do. i have no other weapons." >> and that's critical to understand what motivates them. >> i think so. of course, my condition was difficult to understand, i was a prisoner. >> you were held at the moment by terrorists. >> yes. >> when you look at the syrian civil law, you say mistakes were made. changes could have been done to prevent what happened.
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>> we have said a few times, not in this book, but articles, that, in fact, we wrote in an article which took time to get published, because in syria we have a third chest game between iran and saudi arabia. >> how should the world go about ending the crisis. >> we are saying we knew there was a proxy war, the importance of quiet behind the scenes mead yaghts and getting -- mediation and getting the players around the table, saudi arabia, and iran, are crucial in the conflict that is going on. one of the things we advocate is much earlier discrete discussions bringing the right players together. you can't stop the flow of weapons until you start to do that. >> they were discussing their new book "the fog of peace."
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>> deborah felman grew up in new york city in an ultimate raw orted dox sect. she had to keep her head shaved, follow rules and was forbidden to read or sing. she writes about her story. >> i'm deborah felman, i'm the author of "unorthodox and exodus", it's about growing up in a community and exodus is leaving the sect with my son, in my early 20s. the sect was founded after world war ii, with the belief that the holocaust happened as a punishment, and the only way to prevent another was to recreate the european ghetto and live a fanatical version of jewish
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life. women in this community have one role - mothers and wives. they are expected to have a lot of children. i was not allowed to read or educate myself academically. i didn't even get a high school diploma. my marriage was arranged and i was sent to memory class. you view your body with horror and shame. when my son was born it became more about his future than my unhappy possess. it made be desperate. that's when i snuck out to go to college. this is when several sexual abuse scandals surfaced. victims were blamed and abusers protected. i realised i would never be able to defend my son in a circumstance. i felt i had to get out. i thought i'd write a book and then they won't kidnap my son because the world would know they'd do that. there were people enraged, who wand me dead.
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i had letters from former family members telling me "we have your grave ready and can't wait to dance on it." what kind of family does that? no family worth staying with. i have friends who accept me for who i am. my message is no matter where you are, it is okay to be you. it's the best possible way to be. it feels the best. and i think that's how we start change. >> deborah felman in her own words. >> still to come - controversy around the asia pacific's biggest art show as artists threaten to boycott. >> former w n.b.a. star opens up about a battle against depression. her story ahead in sports.
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>> let me show you where we had tornado reports or frontal cloud, where we have a tornado watch. moving to the north of c hjs. >> co. -- chiquo, the storm is strong,
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hail reports have been brought in. as it moves into the sierra, it brings in the snowment storm reports for california - whipped, hail and the report -- wind, hail and the report of the tornado. it will be observed by the national weather service to confirm if there's rotational damage on the ground. they'll see if they confirm it as a tornado. some clouds are common. some cold air storms coming in. now it's rain showers, but you can see it getting a ground of heavy ones once more in the western washington, where we had the wettest march. we have three days left - actually, two days left. and then we'll see some rain just pile up in the gage, adding in to - making it difficult to break the all-time record for wettest march. now, as we look at the radar, north carolina, i want you to look at the virginia boarder. you can see the storm crossing up into virginia now. we are watching this one for the
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potential of increasing strong gusty winds. we've been getting wind gusts 40 to 50 miles per hour. heavy rain, causing flash flood watches in a number of places. definitely getting concerns in the north-east. where the rain totals. over an inch for places like new york, boston, and d.c. the rain conditions tonight and through the day. we'll get a bit of a break briefly on sunday afternoon before the rain picks up again. >> more rain there. ross is here. an inspiring story of a w n.b.a. star. >> yes, she's opening up depression, she was the best women's basketball player on planet earth. she starred in the w n.b.a. off the court she suffered in pain leading her to an unthingal
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attempted suicide. jessica taff has her story. >> to understand until at the height of her career shamika tried to take her life you have to understand where it began. she was born in queens to young personalities, 19-year-old benita and 22-year-old billy. life was good but challenged when both parents began to drink. >> there was a lot of ups and downs. when mum stay the out, doesn't come home and you know she's not there, because she's drunk. it was tough. >> this went on for years until social services moved her and her brother in with her grandmother. the 11-year-old was dealing with anger and depression by then. there was one place she was at ease - the basketball court. >> it was love at first sight and a stress reliever.
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>> the baggage translated into basketball goal. after winning championships at high school, it was no surprise when she was the number one draft pick in 1999. >> tell me about the day you were drafted number one overall. >> i remember talking to my grandmother and crying. the draft was in new york, and to see how far i had come. she played for the washington mist ekes and was named rookie of the here. she rode a high professionally. behind closed doors she wrestled with the demons of depression. in 2002 she received devastating news, her grandmother was gone. what was it like when she passed away? >> that was the toughest period. that was my support system, the person that was there for me during the difficult times of my
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life. when she left, i felt 'emity. >> with her -- i felt empty. >> with her support system gone, she said time out. she missed six straight games and decided not to return for the season. it was during that time she discovered she was clinically depressed. she requested a trade to l.a. hoping that would help, but her downward spiral conditioned and ended with a suicide attempt. >> what was going through your head at the moment? >> man, what have i done, and am i going to be okay. and i remember the doctor coming in to the hospital, talking to my friend that that was in a room. she said she was going to experience a bad night because i had overdosed on medication. i didn't feel like being here, i wanted to be with my
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grandmother. i'm thankful that god gave me a second chance. >> sham eka knew it was her lowest point and worked hard to pick up the pieces. during this time she was diagnosed with bipolar ii, a mood disorder including swings in mood from manic highs to depressive lows. >> being diagnosed was a blessing for me to understand. i was angry because i wish i would have known this years ago. >> 36 years old she says she's in the best place of her life. she's on the right medication and on good terms with her mother. most of all she stopped keeping her struggles a secret. >> i'm not ashaped of anything i have been -- ashamed of anything i have been through. i am sure i'll look back and think, "wow, i have an interesting story", it's a story a lot of little girls and boys
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can reads, the ups and downs of life. it's not easy, but it's beautiful. >> that was jessica taff reporting. >> according to the national institute of mental health one in four people suffer mental health problems. athletes are not immune, they are often seen as invulnerable. >> why did she come forward? >> she came forward hoping to help others, whether it's young girls or boys opening up about mental illness because it's a big factor. >> thank you, ross. >> one of the world's largest contemporary art exhibitions is being held in australia. controversy is stealing the show in sydney. artists threatened to boycott because of its main sponsor. andrew thomas explains why. >> with live performance, sculpture, video and artistic experience, the sydney bien
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articly promotes itself as the biggest contemporary arts festival. libya castro is among on artist exhibiting, but withdraw at one point after finding out the main sponsor was running the karms for asylum seekers in nauru and papua new guinea. >> it was impossible for us to continue knowing what we knew. >> we felt we did not want to be an active part in this cape, causing human suffering. >> other artists pulled out because of the financial backing of transfield. they have a contract to run the camps and they have been condemned as being inhumane and in contravention of human rights. the chairman of the b. >> enally had transfield resign and corporate ties kt.
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though too late. most boycotting artists returned. >> i think if the bienally is remembered for bringing the issue tu to the for, that's a good thing. imagine what you desire, what society you want to the live in, that's something artists are keen to explore. australia government is angry saying artists bullied organizers and question whether government money should be withheld. others say what happens sets a press dent. >> it may make givers nervous about involving themselves in giving, bringing controversy and difficult content. >> helped ironically, this year's should attract visitors, but will future event have the final support to operate at all. art and protest have a lopping history. the protest overshadowed the art much it's a sign of how
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controversial the refugee policies has begun, and anything or anyone. >> finally tonight - many countries around the world are observing earth hour. it's a case of now you see it, now you don't. look at that. major monuments went dark for up to an hour. people turned off nonessential lights to show support of the planet, and it was started by the worldwide fund for nature to raise awareness about climate change. scary to think about. >> that is the show, thank you for joining us, i'm jonathan betz. we'll be back tomorrow with more news. headlines are back after a short break. have a good night and a great weekend.
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>> you're watching al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz in new york with the top stories. >> united states is trying to save the middle east peace talks. israel refused to release two
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dozen prisoners on saturday, now the palestinians are threatening to walk away. st rail wants assurances that -- israel wants assurances that talks will be extended. on ground on ukraine. e looking secretary of state john kerry will meet with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov in parsize. they are at odds about the troop presence along the boarder. >> the death toll in the washington mud slide is 18. the previous effort was 19. more than 100 aftershocks rumbled through southern california since an earthquake struck near los angeles. the quake with a 5.1 caused damage to buildings, but safety concerns are keeping people from returning home. more than 30 have been detained in chile after protesters faced off with officers. splits used tear gas to disperse
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crowds. demonstrators staged rallies to remember two young brothers culled by police. they had been attending a protest. those are the headlines. i'm jonathan betz, stay tuned because "consider this" is next, and you can find us online at aljazeera.com. plus would high schoolers be healthier and better students if the school day started later? and are over protective parents really making kids safer? here's more on what is ahead.

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